Ira Mathur

Ira Mathur receiving award from former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday

Ira Mathur is an Indian-born Trinidad and Tobago multimedia freelance journalist, Sunday Guardian columnist and writer. The longest-running columnist for the Sunday Guardian, she has been writing an op-ed for the paper since 1995, except for a hiatus from 2003 to 2004 when she wrote for the Daily Express. She has written more than eight hundred columns on politics, economics, social, health and developmental issues, locally, regionally and internationally. Her complete body of work is available at www.irasroom.org.

Mathur was educated in India and the UK, and holds a liberal arts degree in Literature and Philosophy from Trent University, as well as an LLB from the University of London and a Diploma in International Journalism from City University, London.^[1]

In 2021 Mathur was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021 for her first novel Touching Dr Simone (31 Novels were chosen out of a global submission of 2058). Ira Mathur’s memoir Love The Dark Days is to be published by Peepal Tree Press, (July 7th 2022). The Press notably published Monique Roffey, winner of the Costa Book of the Year (2021).

At its Annual General Meeting in October 2021, Ira Mathur was appointed uncontested as the president of the Media Association of T&T (MATT).

Awards[]

1996: Media Excellence Awards Royal Bank/ Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago - Best Commentary (Print)
2018: Second prize winner of the Caribbean-based Small Axe Literary Competition for short fiction.^[2]

References[]

^ Ira Mathur Biography.
^ "submissions + eligibility | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

External links[]

Official website

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[1] Ira Mathur Biography.

[2] "submissions + eligibility | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

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